Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator Pedal
Go acoustic -- at the press of a footswitch! Choose standard, jumbo, enhanced, or piezo modes, then dial in the body and top sound you like, and add reverb.
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Overall User Ratings (based on 46 ratings)
Submitted March 22, 2009 by a customer from hotmail.com
Boss AC-3 Acoustic Sim Customer Review
Overall I'd give this pedal a 9, only because you have to adjust it quite a bit if you plug into a new amp to get the perfect sound you want.
Sound
This pedal has excellent sound. I love instead of turning off the Distortion and getting a hollow sounding clean electric, now I just hit the stompbox and it sounds like I just picked up my acoustic that's sitting in the corner (Which is just too far to consider).
Features
The preset modes are nice, the Piezo is my personal preference. The Top and Body tone knobs are effective and can greatly change your sound, and the Reverb function is high quality and useful.
Ease of Use
Standard Boss: Plug and play.
Quality
Standard Boss Again: I'd imagine if I threw this pedal off of the roof it might break a knob off, but they pedal would still work. This pedal feels like a beast for its size.
Manufacturer Support
Never needed support.
Musical Background:
Jamming Guitarist/Bassist
Musical Style:
Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Metal, Nu Metal, Hard Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash Metal
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Submitted August 2, 2021 by a customer from yahoo.com
"Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator"
Here's it in a nutshell, if you have a song or two to play onstage it can work but won't be a great sound. Positive features are response time doesn't lag, and it does have a reverb feature. If you like the sound and feel of an acoustic you won't like this. To say you wouldn't bring an acoustic to a gig for fear of it being damaged is kind of lame, maybe keep the expensive acoustic home but take the cheap one, you will get a better sound. I plugged a strat into a clean amps and it sounded better.
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Submitted February 7, 2013 by dave c in caldwell, NJ
"No no no"
I purchased this in the hope that it would be good enough to use for a couple of acoustic guitar parts on stage. I used a strat and tried it both direct to pa and through a guitar amp. There is so much digital fizz in this thing I feel it is unusable. The fizz seem related to the top control - if you turn it down the fizz goes away, but so does the acoustic tone. Too bad because under the fizz you can sort of hear promising acoustic tones..Maybe the AC4 will correct this problem, but I sent mine back.
Musical Background:
pro
Musical Style:
jazz/blues
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Submitted May 26, 2011 by a customer from live.com
"Acoustic Crapulator"
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Sound
Cheesy, unrealistic, failed for my tastes and purposes. Well made and durable, though. i owned it , and i was glad to sell it to a friend who liked it!
Features
Stereo inputs would've been nice, especially if one input would do well for electric basses. Too few controls!
Quality
great construction, although the noise level was high for a Boss pedal.
Value
Sorry, but cheaper pedals blow this unit out of the water!
Manufacturer Support
n/a; I didn't contact Boss.
Musical Background:
working musician, teacher and producer
Musical Style:
most styles
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